Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2018, when ExxonMobil announced its intention to reduce its methane emissions and gas-burning, many welcomed and celebrated the news. Despite these initial claims, the company’s internal documents paint a different picture. Exxon’s leaked documents reveal devastating pollution plan. Read more:Â .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In air permitting documents, Venture Global officials told the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality that it would be “technically challenging” to capture carbon dioxide from the exhaust of on-site natural gas engines and inject it underground — called carbon capture and storage (CCS). exporters of liquified natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight. Not only in COP but in our territories.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

Now, newly discovered documents reveal that the American Gas Association was studying the health and indoor pollution risks from gas stoves as far back as the early 1970s — that they knew much more, at a far earlier date, than has been previously documented.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

Cooley agrees with the Commission’s position that by 2030 green hydrogen will be cost-competitive with grey forms of hydrogen, produced via steam methane reformation, but he believes it could even happen sooner in markets with cheap solar power. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

Expectations about a flurry of announcements and strategies are high this year - particularly because it is really the last opportunity to put policies and strategies on the table before we go into the home straight towards COP26 in Glasgow this November. And, importantly, how and where will it be produced?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Facebook updates climate policy. US tech giant Facebook has this week announced an update to its climate policy, in a bid to better engage its users with climate issues and crackdown on 'climate misinformation' on its platform. US and EU pursuing global methane deal. alive, and India launches a major new green vehicle programme.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The document, unveiled by UN high-level champions for climate action Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz this morning, notes that hydrogen has the potential to play a "pivotal role in supporting deep decarbonisation goals". energy sector pathway". climate scenarios, it stresses.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, sent letters to five PR firms — Story Partners, DDC Advocacy, Blue Advertising, Singer Associates, and FTI Consulting — requesting all documents related to their work running influence or marketing campaigns for oil, gas, and coal companies and their trade groups.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

including municipalities, states, and one fishermen’s trade association are currently suing major fossil fuel producers seeking to recover climate-related costs and hold the companies liable for their documented misrepresentations around climate change. We believe that climate policy is for Congress to debate and decide, not the court system.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The court documents allege that the company's claims in its 2020 annual report that natural gas is a "clean fuel" is misleading, given natural gas involves the release of "significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Setting out how various green policies announced since 2021 tally against the emissions reductions required to meet its Sixth Carbon Budget and the 2030 climate goal it submitted to the UN, the government acknowledged emissions are projected be roughly 32Mt CO2e higher that the legally required limit for the period between 2033 and 2037.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some of the thinking can be traced back to the legacy organization of the Desertec initiative, Dii, which addressed the proposal in a North Africa-Europe hydrogen " manifesto " document published last year. One of the authors of that manifesto also co-wrote Hydrogen Europe’s 2 x 40 GW initiative paper.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. A GHG inventory is a document that lists the quantities of GHG emissions from an entity – an organization – during a given period – usually a year. GHG Emission Inventory .

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The UK's progress on emissions reductions, climate policy, and international finance has been charted in its latest National Communication report to the UN - BusinessGreen takes a look at the key takeaways. It also details the funds that have been distributed from British coffers to climate mitigation and adaptation internationally.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Railroad Commission (RRC) is in charge of regulating the oil and gas industry in the state, and a permissive approach to oversight, particularly when it comes to rampant flaring of methane from oil and gas wells, is well-known.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Trade body Water UK - which represents wastewater companies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - welcomed the Plan for Water, as it stressed the need for more investment and supportive policies to drive down pollution across rivers and waterways. "We This is the third sham of a Tory water plan since the summer," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”. They’re all getting bigger.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

That is why the government has been pressed strongly by the green economy to unleash a detailed policy plan for hydrogen over the past year or more, and why such a document is seen as key to filling in some of the gaps of the UK's net zero agenda. There are, broadly speaking, two main methods for producing low or zero carbon hydrogen.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Even the author of the independent review that led to the government's strategy, Leon founder Henry Dimbleby, was quick to criticise the document, telling the Guardian it had not really earned the right to be called a Strategy. "It For farming and environmental groups alike the frustration with the long-awaited strategy was palpable.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

The government is today facing fierce criticism over its new Food Strategy with critics from both the food and farming industry and the environmental movement accusing Ministers of producing a document that is "flatter than a pancake and missing most of the crucial ingredients needed to truly ensure our long-term food security".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Consequently, the Glasgow Climate Pact points to a new approach whereby NDCs become living documents to be updated annually as new policies and targets are adopted - policies and targets that will hopefully reflect the rapid pace at which clean technologies and public engagement is evolving. would be truly dead and buried.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

These two statements — that Alberta’s oil output can continue for another century and that demand is forecasted to accelerate — is challenged by a recent policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), that finds Canada’s oil sector is vulnerable to declining global oil demand and falling oil prices.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Internal corporate documents and public records reviewed by DeSmog support several of Dye’s claims, including allegations that NW Natural executives downplayed or ignored employee concerns about billing accuracy issues associated with projects that facilitated extremely profitable energy market speculation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The document sets out a vision for establishing the UK as a "centre for responsible international mining". The various policy plans come amidst an upswing in European exploration activity, from both large miners and start-ups.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

New IEEFA report argues existing CCS projects are underperforming, but industry counters that carbon capture projects can deliver major emissions savings when effective policy frameworks are in place. Producing the primary usable product - natural, or methane gas - is impossible without separating CO2," researchers explained.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

Equinor's H2H Saltend project, which intends to produce hydrogen by steam reforming methane and then capturing the result carbon emissions, is aiming to make use of the system, which is also designed to ferry emissions from a separate carbon capture project planned at the Drax Power Plant further inland.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Research published by Climate Action Tracker warned the sum total of policies and actions being taken by governments would deliver roughly 2.4C Methane faces a reckoning.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It is well documented and well remembered by the investment community. And while policy should rarely be counted as a key market driver, for climate tech it has proven to be a significant catalyst (see the history of solar and wind for proof). (More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence?

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill. And carbon offsets have a long and well-documented history of overestimating the carbon benefits they claim to deliver. “In Most offsets that companies buy are designed to reduce emissions. For example, companies can pay to build a solar farm that replaces fossil fuel generation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, Levy is focusing his flights on surveying orphaned well sites to document the severity of the situation. The number of orphaned wells in oil and gas producing states nationwide continues to increase, as does the amount of planet warming methane emissions leaking from them. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Calling for a Smarter Solution.

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